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Woman With Dead Child is a 1903 etching by Käthe Kollwitz. Its subject was influenced by her experiences in an underserved sector of Berlin as a physician's wife where disease and infant mortality rate were high. [1] The image is often considered as Käthe Kollwitz's most famous depiction of war. [2]
Phemba, also known as Yombe maternity figures, refers to sculptural objects that depict the figures of a mother and child. [1] [2] Phemba statuary falls into two groups: mothers cradling or holding their babies, and mothers nursing. [3] They are also commonly made from carved wood with intricate scarification.
The drawing is the only extant larger-scale drawing by the artist. [3] The drawing depicts the Virgin Mary seated on the thigh of her mother, Saint Anne, while holding the Christ Child as Christ's young cousin, John the Baptist, stands to the right. It currently hangs in the National Gallery in London.
The cartoon of Saint Anne, the Virgin and the Child Jesus is part of the Christian iconographic theme of the "Trinitarian Saint Anne", in which the Child Jesus, his mother Mary and his grandmother Anne are depicted together. [5] The painting of The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne was Leonardo da Vinci's first work to depict the subject. [6]
It depicts a mother with syphilis holding her baby, who is affected by congenital syphilis. Munch completed the work after visiting the Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris, where he saw a woman crying for her child with the disease. The baby in the painting is lifeless, pale and covered in spots.
Madonna holding a photo of herself and her mother when she was a young child. Related: Madonna's 6 Children: All About Lourdes, Rocco, David, Mercy, Stella and Estere
The Acrobats (or The Wounded Child) is an oil-on-canvas painting created in 1874 by French artist Gustave Doré.It represents a family of acrobats, who work in a circus, struck by a tragedy: their son, mortally wounded in the head, lies in the arms of his mother after an accident during a tightrope walking performance.
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